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@article{1072615, author = {Bartmanski, Dominik Maksymilian}, article_number = {4/2012}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431011423577}, keywords = {anthropology; charisma; collective representation; Foucault; icon; Malinowski; performativity; social theory; sociology of knowledge; symbolic classification}, language = {eng}, issn = {1368-4310}, journal = {European Journal of Social Theory}, title = {How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault}, url = {http://est.sagepub.com/content/current}, volume = {15/2012}, year = {2012} }
TY - JOUR ID - 1072615 AU - Bartmanski, Dominik Maksymilian PY - 2012 TI - How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault JF - European Journal of Social Theory VL - 15/2012 IS - 4/2012 SP - 427-453 EP - 427-453 SN - 13684310 KW - anthropology KW - charisma KW - collective representation KW - Foucault KW - icon KW - Malinowski KW - performativity KW - social theory KW - sociology of knowledge KW - symbolic classification UR - http://est.sagepub.com/content/current L2 - http://est.sagepub.com/content/current N2 - The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become ‘a founding father’ of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and ‘go down in history’ despite personal and professional failures, while others enjoy only limited recognition or simply sink into oblivion, even if they have met all the standards of their day? Quite a few sociologists have tackled this elusive issue. Pierre Bourdieu, Michele Lamont and Randall Collins are among those who fleshed out strong explanatory frameworks. This project adds to this body of knowledge by emphasizing cultural factors that these authors downplayed in their seminal accounts, despite being aware of their significance. By showing why these underdeveloped aspects of their works need to be incorporated into the debate and how this can be achieved, this article introduces a new theorization of the iconic, lasting intellectual reputation substantiated by evidence from the lifeworks of Bronisław Malinowski and Michel Foucault. As such, it aims, minimally, to make sociology of knowledge decisively ‘cultural’. Maximally, it seeks to demonstrate that the iconic success of intellectual intervention in social theory depends on carefully performed and contingently mediated engagement with the binary systems of symbolic classification. ER -
BARTMANSKI, Dominik Maksymilian. How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault. \textit{European Journal of Social Theory}. 2012, 15/2012, 4/2012, p.~427-453. ISSN~1368-4310. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431011423577.
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